I've spent the last 2 hours searching and searching for a
lightbox
tool such as:

A. An extension for Dreamweaver that I can click from the
insert menu and simply select (like "Browse" in Windows) both the
thumbnail and full size images I want to use, then have it simply
compute everything and insert the code into my page... Trick is,
I'm using mostly templates, and everything I've found wants to
insert into the BODY tag (not allowed by templates).

B. Or, a standalone program which will generate said code
from outside Dreamweaver, which I can then manually insert into a
page... This isn't my preferred option, but I'm both frustrated and
a little desperate.

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> I've spent the last 2 hours searching and searching for
a
>
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/lightbox2/index.htm
tool such
> as:
>
> A. An extension for Dreamweaver that I can click from
the insert menu and
> simply select (like "Browse" in Windows) both the
thumbnail and full size
> images I want to use, then have it simply compute
everything and insert
> the
> code into my page... Trick is, I'm using mostly
templates, and everything
> I've
> found wants to insert into the BODY tag (not allowed by
templates).
>
> B. Or, a standalone program which will generate said
code from outside
> Dreamweaver, which I can then manually insert into a
page... This isn't my
> preferred option, but I'm both frustrated and a little
desperate.

This is not an Extension and it's not free but it looks and
acts similar to Lightbox.

The CyberGallery Behavior is fairly easy to set up and the
caption bar options are very flexible too. You place thumbnails on
your page and just link them to the Behavior. The rest is handled
by CyberGallery.

Okay, I haven't used PVII's lightbox extension since that first week we bought it...

Thumbnails are forced into that uniform square (squished), and there's no way to copy/paste images from the gallery into other parts of the same page without breaking the code, styles and functionality.

Sadly, I've got straight to manual (rel="lightbox[group]") input.

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Basically, I don't need all the complication of a photo gallery...

All I need is essential control and a fast interface for adding individual images using lightbox.

I'm looking for a simple GUI function to run through this cycle of actions:

1. Click to place cursor, then click the extension (or whatever) button

2. Prompt user to browse for thumbnail image and select 3. Prompt user to browse for full size image and select 4. Add rel="lightbox" into HREF tag 5. Prompt for TITLE tag content, copy same to ALT tag, default to nothing if no content is entered

6. Field for optional [group] insert ( rel="lightbox[userdefined]" or rel="lightbox" if nothing is entered)

Final product should look like this, with all info and options added initially through that ...

Perhaps there is some way to create a macro with prompts (for title tag content, etc)?

Or, a Dreamweaver extension that could be made to do the same thing?

Also, I have the lightbox REL built into the head of my templates, so we don't need the extension/macro/etc to do that part... We'd like it to simply assume that the call for lightbox is already built into the HEAD tags.

Willing to pay for a module like I've described, as long as the pricing isn't ridiculous.